stress mark

American  

noun

1. a mark placed before, after, or over a syllable to indicate stress in pronunciation; accent mark.

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Example Sentences

“Sometimes it’s very easy to see exactly where the muscle was placed, because it leave stress marks or ridges on the skull,” says Nilsson.

From National Geographic

"The closest analog we can find to the 'stress marks' that we observed in Antarctic Lystrosaurus tusks are stress marks in teeth associated with hibernation in certain modern animals," Whitney added.

From Fox News

It's a complicated milieu, but one of the main ways that stress marks the brain is through epigenetics.

From Nature

The choleric brows went up like twin stress marks accenting unspoken skepticism.

From Project Gutenberg